Open-Source AI
Open models — Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek, Qwen and others — are catching up to closed labs and let you run AI on your own hardware, vendor-free. That shifts the balance of power, the safety debate and the economics of the field. Here is everything on open-source AI: open-weight releases, licenses, local deployment and the race against closed models.
Hugging Face engineers wrote a practical guide to generative AI: from transformers to fine-tuning
A new book from the Hugging Face team promises to turn generative AI from a black box into a clear practical tool. We explain why this matters for the industry and…
Language model distillation: can knowledge theft be proven through chat
A researcher tried to determine whether a language model had been trained on a competitor’s outputs using only dialogue with it. The results turned out to be…
Alibaba unveils CoPaw — a workstation for scaling AI agents
Alibaba has released the open-source framework CoPaw, which turns a developer's local machine into a full-fledged environment for running autonomous AI agents with…
Baidu loses $11 billion in market value: investors are tired of AI promises
DeepSeek entrusted the final tuning of its latest model to Huawei, not Nvidia
Alibaba bets on AI tools for programmers with a low barrier to entry
Chinese AI startup StepFun prepares $500 million IPO in Hong Kong
Liquid AI challenges the race for bigger models: LFM2's hybrid architecture changes the rules
Startup Liquid AI unveiled a 24-billion-parameter model that combines the attention mechanism with convolutions. The goal is to address the scaling problems facing…
Alibaba's Qwen3.5: three new open models for consumer GPUs
Alibaba has open-sourced three new Qwen3.5 models that run on standard consumer graphics cards — without expensive server hardware.
Isomorphic Labs develops a next-generation AI engine for drug design
Alibaba Cloud launches support for Qwen 3.5 and GLM-5 for coding
How to Stop Believing Every AI Headline and Learn to Read the News Critically
Meta to spend billions on AMD processors, challenging Nvidia's monopoly
Qianxun Intelligence raised nearly 2 billion yuan and became a unicorn
Chinese AI startup Qianxun Intelligence closed a major funding round with participation from leading venture capital funds. The company’s valuation exceeded 10…
OpenAI drops the leading benchmark for evaluating code — and that changes the rules of the game
OpenAI announced that it will no longer use SWE-bench Verified — one of the most cited benchmarks for evaluating AI coding models. The reason: contaminated data…